Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics/1
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- Result: Even with one cn tags, I think this has been cleaned up sufficiently. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:08, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
Uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Z1720 (talk) 02:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- I can take a look at this. The lead could do with some tidying up, and I can see some unsourced statements on first pass. Will look more closely and check out previous review for further inspiration. Rodney Baggins .talk. 09:28, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- I think this article can easily be saved as GA with a bit of work, which I'm slowly getting on with. I've been making some improvements to the prose and sourcing, with more planned. I do think this is quite an important article in the grand scheme of things and as I'm a member of WikiProject Olympics, I'm happy to take it on. In terms of meeting the GA criteria, I think the following needs doing:
- Tidy up lead section, source any miscellaneous statements not expanded in main article, e.g. Beckham at closing ceremony
- Medal count / doping issue in lead needs to be expanded/explained more clearly in body.
- In Medallists section, the medals not covered by ref.7 need to be separately sourced, i.e. the 4 bronze medals awarded at a later date in athletics.
- Check all sport sections are sufficiently sourced, add new sources where necessary.
- Swap in a few alternative sources to reduce over reliance on BBC (as mentioned in initial GA review).
- I've rescued the "Official Results from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games" source (in References, General) and cited both parts ("– Archery to Handball" and "– Hockey to Wrestling"). As these constitute a general reference that can be used to verify the numbers and names of Team GB participants in each discipline, as well as all the results, I thought rather than cluttering up the article with ref/rp tags, I could instead add a useful note to help the reader locate the relevant info, e.g. below the first: "Contains results for the following disciplines: Archery (page 1); Athletics (page 55); Badminton (page 415)..." and below the second: "Contains results for the following disciplines: Hockey (page 1); Judo (page 352); Modern Pentathlon (page 414)..." Rodney Baggins .talk. 14:01, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Rodney Baggins: I added some cn templates to help identify what needs citations. Z1720 (talk) 20:57, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Z1720: I think I'm on the home stretch now, and I want to try closing this GAR by end of next week if at all possible. I've not had a huge amount of spare time to do this lately but have been making steady improvements and tried to keep the momentum going. In terms of GA reassessment, still to do... Finish work on lead section (done a lot of this already); Clear [cn] tag in cycling section intro (already found sources, just want to work them in properly); Make sense of sports not contested/football section & rm [cn] tags (this might be the most difficult bit); Finish work on media coverage section & rm [cn] tag. I will probably have to remove the beautiful sentence at end of Athletics intro ("When these four medals were redistributed, Great Britain's 2008 athletics total of eight medals was its most successful since the second world war.") – it's no doubt a fact, but I just can't find it explicitly stated anywhere (will have another look). I've cited lots of new sources and tried to dilute the over-reliance on BBC. There are some other improvements I want to make afterwards, including additional sourcing, but that's over and above what I think is needed to retain GA status. Rodney Baggins .talk. 17:05, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Rodney Baggins: I will not have time this weekend to review the article, but ping me anyways when its ready and I will take a look when I can. Hopefully we can have this closed by the end of next week. Z1720 (talk) 18:17, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rodney Baggins, do you intend to keep improving this article, or do you feel that it now meets the GA criteria? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:27, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- It's very close. Just 3 [cn] tags to shift. Been on holiday, sorry, will get it sorted this weekend! Rodney Baggins .talk. 17:01, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Rodney Baggins, do you intend to keep improving this article, or do you feel that it now meets the GA criteria? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:27, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Rodney Baggins: I will not have time this weekend to review the article, but ping me anyways when its ready and I will take a look when I can. Hopefully we can have this closed by the end of next week. Z1720 (talk) 18:17, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Z1720: I think I'm on the home stretch now, and I want to try closing this GAR by end of next week if at all possible. I've not had a huge amount of spare time to do this lately but have been making steady improvements and tried to keep the momentum going. In terms of GA reassessment, still to do... Finish work on lead section (done a lot of this already); Clear [cn] tag in cycling section intro (already found sources, just want to work them in properly); Make sense of sports not contested/football section & rm [cn] tags (this might be the most difficult bit); Finish work on media coverage section & rm [cn] tag. I will probably have to remove the beautiful sentence at end of Athletics intro ("When these four medals were redistributed, Great Britain's 2008 athletics total of eight medals was its most successful since the second world war.") – it's no doubt a fact, but I just can't find it explicitly stated anywhere (will have another look). I've cited lots of new sources and tried to dilute the over-reliance on BBC. There are some other improvements I want to make afterwards, including additional sourcing, but that's over and above what I think is needed to retain GA status. Rodney Baggins .talk. 17:05, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.